Hotel-Dieu (Tonnerre)
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The Hôtel-Dieu in Tonnerre , a town in the Yonne department of the French region of Burgundy , is a medieval hospital. The building is as early as the 1862 monument ( monument historique protected).
history
The Hôtel-Dieu was founded by Margaret of Burgundy and built from 1293 to 1295. The facility, known as the Hôpital Notre-Dame des Fontenilles , had room for 40 sick people, although significantly more people were later accommodated. Marguerite de Bourgogne had a residential wing built next to it, called Le château (the castle), where she lived as a widow. Her body was buried in the chapel of the Hôtel-Dieu in 1308.
architecture
The approx. 88 meter long, 14 meter wide and approximately 12 meter high hospital room (with the Gothic apse added later ) is covered by a 4500 m² roof, which was originally covered with colored glazed tiles (see Hôtel-Dieu (Beaune) ) was. The walls were paneled and the roof structure , held together by wooden tie rods , was constructed in the form of an upturned hull . The Gothic chapel adjoins the southeast side. At the end of the 18th century, the north-west side of the building was extended to include a. a. to accommodate an operating room.
Furnishing
An approx. 2.10 meter high statue of Our Lady ( Vierge Dorée ), made during the donor's lifetime (around 1305), is placed above the Renaissance altarpiece (16th century) of the chapel. Several sculptures, including a burial of Christ from 1454 - one of the oldest of its kind - as well as two important tombs for François Michel Le Tellier de Louvois (1691) and Margaret of Burgundy (1826) are exhibited in the large hall. In the years 1785/6 the then head of the monastery, Camille Férouillat, had a noon wiser (often also referred to as a gnomon ) incorporated into the floor of the large hospital room .
museum
The attached museum shows some fragments of the medieval glass windows as well as several crucifixes, most of which come from churches in the area. One room shows the equipment of the hospital room as it looked in the 19th century.
Todays use
Exhibitions and concerts are sometimes held at the Hôtel-Dieu. It is open for tours.
See also
literature
- Alain Saint-Denis: Les Hôtels-Dieu de Bourgogne . Comité Regional de Tourisme de Bourgogne, Dijon o.J.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Hôtel Dieu, Tonnerre in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ^ Hôtel Dieu, Tonnerre in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
Coordinates: 47 ° 51 ′ 22 " N , 3 ° 58 ′ 32" E